The following lists events that happened during 1925 in the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics.
Incumbents General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union – Joseph Stalin Chairman of the Central Executive Committee of the Congress of Soviets – Mikhail Kalinin Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars of the Soviet Union – Alexei Rykov
Events January 20 January – The Soviet–Japanese Basic Convention is signed.
December 18–31 December – 14th Congress of the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks)A.A. Soleviev, S"ezdy i konferentsii KPSS: Spravochnik [Congresses and Conferences of the KPSS: A Handbook]. Moscow: Izdatel'stvo Politicheskoi Literatury, 1986; p. 202.
Sports 10 November – 8 December – Moscow 1925 chess tournament
Births 2 January – Irina Arkhipova, singer 11 January – Viktor Avdyushko, actor 15 January – August Englas, Estonian wrestler (d. 2017) 30 January – Pyotr Kuznetsov, Red Army soldier and Hero of the Soviet Union 19 February – Galina Bogdanova, Russian grinder and production leader (d. 2013) 8 March – Efim Geller, chess Grandmaster 26 June – Pavel Belyayev, cosmonaut 13 September – Sergei Salnikov, footballer 20 October – Firudin Shushinski, musicologist 24 November – Mikhail Khvatkov, Red Army soldier and Hero of the Soviet Union 12 December - Alexander Khmelik, playwright and director (d. 2001) 21 December – Tatyana Karakashyants, Olympic diver Date unknown – Alexandra Fominykh, farm worker
Deaths
6 August - Grigory Kotovsky, Soviet military and political activist, commander of the Red Army and member of the Central Executive Committee of the Soviet Union (born 1881) 31 October - Mikhail Frunze, Soviet revolutionary, politician, army officer and military theorist (born 1885) 28 December - Sergei Yesenin, Russian lyrical poet of the Silver Age of Russian poetry (born 1895)
See also List of Soviet films of 1925 1925 in fine arts of the Soviet Union
References